Welcome to the UCC Wind Energy research group homepage. We are a team of academics, professional researchers, PhD and master students working on technologies to help exploit one of the most economical and technically mature renewable sources of electricity: wind.

Our research focuses on the following themes:

• wind power forecasting systems development and applications;
• the wind resource in coastal and offshore areas under fluctuating atmospheric stability conditions;
• wind energy storage technologies as integrator for wind power within the electrical grid, with particular emphasis on large scale energy storage such as pumped hydro energy storage;
• multi-agent distributed control of renewables in microgrids;
• advanced control of wind energy conversion systems.
• offshore wind, wave and tidal energy resource analysis including ZephIR 175 LiDAR vertical wind speed profiling.

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